This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 675 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 675 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This young entrepreneur started a company that addresses the connection between woment's health and hygiene, academic opportunity, and water supplies while providing economic options to women in her home country of South Africa A) Let's Copeny. B) Stella Voolis. C) Autumn Peltier. D) Ramona Kaswan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ramona Kaswan. 2. During which step of primary succession are insects, small birds, and mammals able to inhabit the area? A) First. B) Third. C) Fifth. D) Sixth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sixth. 3. Which statement is MOST LIKELY to be true of a developing country? A) Most adults earn enough money to own cars. B) Most adults consume more than 3, 000 calories a day. C) Most adults live in rural areas and work in agriculture. D) Most adults live in cities and work in factories or offices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Most adults live in rural areas and work in agriculture. 4. Which of these is a good method for reducing your ecological footprint? A) Save energy, food, water, shelter, and produce less waste such green house gases and sewage. B) Drive less, fly less, turn off lights. C) Compost and live in a smaller house. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 5. Biotic environment includes: A) Producers. B) Decomposers. C) Consumers. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 6. Which of the following has the greatest efficiency out of all of the natural resources? A) Hydroelectric. B) Fossil fuels. C) Solar. D) Geothermal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydroelectric. 7. Who first coined the term ecosystem? A) Arthur G. Tansley. B) Aristotle. C) Sunderlal Bahuguna. D) Arjun G. Tandle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arthur G. Tansley. 8. What is the earliest stage of coal? (this has the least amount of energy and is the youngest) A) Peat. B) Lignite. C) Bituminous. D) Anthracite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peat. 9. The variety of organisms in a given area is called: A) A species. B) A gene. C) Abiotic factors. D) Biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biodiversity. 10. How can someone reduce the size of their ecological footprint? A) Eat less meat. B) Drive less. C) Use public transportation. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 11. Which is the following causes the difference in weather that we see during the different seasons. A) The distance from the sun. B) The rotation of the Earth. C) The angle at which the sun's rays hit the Earth. D) Distance from the moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The angle at which the sun's rays hit the Earth. 12. ..... is needed for burning and breathing. A) Air. B) Water. C) Wind. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Air. 13. What global phenomenon has caused some organisms to move toward the poles or to higher altitudes? A) Habitat fragmentation. B) Pollution. C) Warming temperatures. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Warming temperatures. 14. Which of the following forest management practices is the harvesting of trees before they reach maturity? A) Silviculture. B) Propagation. C) Intermediate cuttings. D) Timber stand improvements. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intermediate cuttings. 15. The troposphere of the Earth's atmosphere supports life because it contains A) Water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases. B) Water, nitrogen, helium, and argon. C) Water, oxygen, carbon monoxide, methane. D) Water, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon monoxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases. 16. What will happen if a nonrenewable resource is used up faster than it can be replenished or regenerated? A) The resource will become abundant. B) The resource will be replenished. C) The resource will be replenished. D) The resource will become scarce. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The resource will become scarce. 17. On the top of the zone of saturation is A) Water table. B) Zone of aeration. C) Lava. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water table. 18. The United States government encouraged the use of cars as transportation in part by A) Building interstate highways. B) Charging high gasoline taxes. C) Tax credits for automobile owners. D) Constructing mass public transportation like subways and trains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Building interstate highways. 19. Where the earth slopes downward:water gets deeper, but lots of sun, where dolphins play A) Oceainic. B) Benthic. C) Intertidal. D) Neritic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neritic. 20. How do wetlands help prevent flooding? A) They provide habitat. B) They absorb extra runoff. C) The provide nutrients. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They absorb extra runoff. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnvironmental Sciences Quiz 1Environmental Sciences Quiz 2Environmental Sciences Quiz 3Environmental Sciences Quiz 4Environmental Sciences Quiz 5Environmental Sciences Quiz 6Environmental Sciences Quiz 7Environmental Sciences Quiz 8Environmental Sciences Quiz 9Environmental Sciences Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books